Quotes by Ron Padgett - Page 1

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.
Ron Padgett / Poet
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It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Cards
Cutting
Writing
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Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Home
Care
World
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It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Poet
Poetry Is
Translate
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I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Different
Prose
Writing
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Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Fall
Language
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Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Funeral
Mean
Poet
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So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.
Ron Padgett / Poet
My Wife
Wife
Writing
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It's fun to have a crush on somebody, even one that lasts only fifteen seconds. In New York I can go down the street and have a crush on somebody coming toward me, and then she walks by and the crush disappears. It's quite pleasant.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Crush
Disappear
Fun
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I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the age of eighteen. This manuscript is thematic and organized in a way my poems about my friends aren't. My friends get into the poems simply because they mean a lot to me.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Girl
Crush
Mean
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Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to get mystical here, but there's an energy flow that begins with the poet, and the energy goes out to the audience, and they're energized, and then they return that energy to the poet. As someone standing up there alone, facing these people, I can feel that rapport (or its absence).
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Giving
People
Reading
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Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware of. Plus we had a good time. It's so much fun to write, for example, with a big brush on a giant piece of paper and to help create visually attractive and surprising objects, which is not what you normally do when you're writing a poem. It's wonderful to create these pieces with artists.
Ron Padgett / Poet
Artist
Fun
Writing
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Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.
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Poetic
Trying
Writing
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